Bugzilla – Bug 156328
Distro upgrade leaves old packages despite updates on the media
Last modified: 2006-03-09 08:36:46 UTC
When upgrading from SUSE Linux 9.1 to SUSE Linux 10.1 beta 7 on x86-64, I got one package conflict (which was correct), but then looking into the package installer, I saw that a number of packages that should be upgraded are not. Most of them have the -32bit suffix and the reason is that the versioning was 9.1-2004xxxxxxxx there, which is newer than the version on the install media. On distribution upgrade, we may need to consider to looking at build dates or maybe not look at versioning info at all?
It does not only happen for -32bit packages (which have this borken versioning), but also for packages like mkisofs which had version 2.01a27 before and now has 2.01 (final). So it's likely to affect real users ...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155472 ***